Patreon Weekly #25 - Nov 22nd, 2019 (Patreon)

Hey Patrons!

Firstly, there's a few days left to vote in the second patron poll if you haven't already. Currently crystal mimics and armored statues are tied for first place, with tormented ghosts in 3rd and phantom piranha in 4th. This makes some sense, as mimics and statues are both more rare, which meant I had more design space for their variants.

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This week, In addition to working on getting 0.8.0 beta-ready, I also spent some time working on an ingame update notifier! This notifier grabs info about the latest release of the game from github, and adds a little notification in the main menu if the version being played is outdated. Tapping the notification gives info about this update and can send the player to the game's releases page on github, where they can download the latest version. This used to be a desktop-exclusive feature but now works on all versions of the game!

The update notifier also works on the Google Play version of the game, but uses Google's new in-app update tool instead. This pulls info from Google play and lets the game seamlessly update to the latest version, without the player even leaving the app! This is very convenient, and helps nudge players to be on the latest version, but (of course) it will only update the game if the user tells it to.

The update notifier is an important feature to get done before starting the beta, as I plan to start offering desktop betas for 0.8.0! It's important to make sure players know when new desktop beta versions are out, as I expect I'll be fixing a fair few bugs with the new desktop version early in the beta.

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Implementing the updater took a bit longer than expected, so the beta for 0.8.0 has been delayed just a bit. I now expect to start the beta for 0.8.0 early next week. The beta will start with everything I've teased here, except reworked mimics, DM-200s, and reworked golems. Over the following weeks I plan to add the following to the beta before a full release:
- final additions and reworks to regular enemies (plus balance tweaks where needed)
- reworked mimics, plus the patron poll winner
- improvement to the 3 later bosses
- a few other smaller additions and improvements